Veteran Communist Party of India leader and former Kerala chief minister P K Vasudevan Nair died in New Delhi on Tuesday.

He died of multiple organ failure brought about by chronic heart ailment and diabetes.

PKV, 79, leaves behind his wife, three sons and two daughters.

Padayatt Kesavapillai Vasudevan Nair, four-time member of Parliament and leader of CPI's Parliamentary Group in the Lok Sabha, breathed his last at 3.35 pm at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where he was admitted last week after an infection in his lungs developed into pneumonia.